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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The authors sampled lead white pigment from 77 well-dated paintings from two museums in The Netherlands (Mauritshuis, The Hague and
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), attributed to 27 painters active in the 17th century — including Frans Hals, Jans Steen and Rembrandt van Rijn, whose 1626 painting _Tobit and Anna with the Kid_
(pictured) was analysed. Lead isotope analysis is based on identifying the amounts of the four stable lead isotopes: 204Pb, 206Pb, 207Pb and 208Pb. The last three originate from the
radioactive decay of uranium and thorium. Over the course of billions of years, lead-containing ore deposits on Earth formed independently and they show different lead isotope compositions,
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AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Nature Physics https://www.nature.com/naturephysics Bart Verberck Authors * Bart Verberck View author publications You can also search for this
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